The Chicago Plot: A Hypothesis

[Charles Drago]

My own sense is that plots as fundamental as the assassination of a political leader often have a strictly demarcated cell structure and that the controllers desire operational resilience. If one plan is uncovered by low-level cops or becomes unlikely to succeed for upredictable reasons, it is important for the controllers to be able to green light another operation.

In some and perhaps even most cases, Jan, you may be right.

But the resources -- human and otherwise -- to mount the Dallas conspiracy as we've uncovered it to date are immense, and I'm hard-pressed to imagine that two such operations could have been run simultaneously.

We also must keep in mind that the similarities between Chicago and Dallas are remarkable for their quantity but not their quality. By this I mean that there is little of the depth to Chicago that we see in Dallas. No multiple simultaneous Vallee sightings. No Vallee sheepdipping a la LHO in Mexico City. No Vallee version of Marina. No defection. No Albert Schweitzer College diversion or equivalent. These sorts of things.

Now it very well may be that the absence of such observations may be attributed to the fact that Chicago in general and Vallee in particular have not been the objects of 50-plus years of ever-intensifying scrutiny and the accumulation of data that it has produced.

Nevertheless, in Chicago I see a veneer -- a thin shadow of Dallas. Nothing deeper was needed to sow the sort of confusion and ultimately provide the resolution which, in my hypothesis, led to the relaxing of Dallas security concerns that had previously been heightened by reports of a plot with the Chicago/Dallas outline.